This book starts with the invention of the wheel nearly 5000 years
ago, and via Archimedes, Aristotle and Hero describes the first
practical applications such as water wheels and grinding wheels,
pushing on to more rigorous scientific research by inquiring minds
such as Leonardo da Vinci and Copernicus in later ages. Newton and
Leibniz followed, and beam structures received maximum attention
three centuries ago. As focus shifts and related disciplines such
as mathematics and physics also develop, slowly turbomachines and
rotor and blade dynamics as we know the subject now take shape.
While the book traces the events leading to Laval and Parsons
Turbines, the emphasis is on rotor and blade dynamics aspects that
pushed these turbines to their limits in the last century. The
tabular and graphical methods developed in the pre-computer era
have taken different form in the last fifty years through finite
element methods. The methods evolved in the last century are
discussed in detail to help modern day designers and researchers.
This book will be useful to young researchers and engineers in
industry and educational institutions engaged in rotor and blade
dynamics work in understanding the past and the present
developments and what is expected in future. Faculty and industry
engineers can benefit from this broad perspective history in
formulating their developmental plans.
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